Harry Hamlin is looking back at the role that possibly “ended” his film career. “I was told by a lot of people, you can’t do [‘Making Love’],” the actor told People in an interview. “I think it had been offered to pretty much everybody in town and everyone had turned it down because they thought it might be damaging to their careers.” The 70-year-old actor played a gay writer in the 1982 film “Making Love”, a movie he believed was “ahead of its time.” READ MORE: Harry Hamlin Reveals How Daughter Amelia Is Handling Breakup With Scott Disick During ‘WWHL’ Appearance “I was looking for something serious and something meaningful, rather than doing a movie about vampire bats invading a small town in in the Midwest, which is the type of fare I was being offered at the time,” he recalled.
Despite his friends advising him to pass up the role, Hamlin’s agent encouraged him to go for it. The actor had just had a son with actress Ursula Andress, which he said led his agent to believe there could be no doubt about his sexuality.
Nonetheless, after the film came out, studios stopped calling. “For years, I’d think was that the reason why I stopped getting calls?
And finally realized that was the last time I ever did a movie for a studio,” said Hamlin. “I’ve done independent films but never a studio film.
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